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Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Publisher
Bodley Head London
Published
1974
  • Pirsig, Robert M.
  • Biography
  • Description and travel
  • Fathers and sons
  • Journeys
  • Maintenance and repair
  • Motorcycles
  • Nonfiction

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.